Thursday, 12 July 2018

PRO/EDR> Rocky Mountain spotted fever - USA (02): (WI) fatal

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever -- United States
A La Crosse woman has died of a disease that is considered rare in the Midwest, health officials said. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the La Crosse County Health Department said [Tue 10 Jul 2018], that the death is the 1st documented from Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Wisconsin.
Jo Foellimi, a La Crosse County public health nurse, says a tick bit the woman while she was camping in western Wisconsin in early May [2018]. The woman was diagnosed with RMSF in mid-June and

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5901596&promed&0

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